Well, get out your cd burner once again we have another iso for you to hammer on............... We just released rc-1.7: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/old-pkgs/VL5.9-STD-RC1.7.isoPlease all of you with hardware issues test this as we made some major kernel revisions to hopefully fix the numerousi810 video problems and maybe savage too. We worked hard to get grannys sound and boot up problems fixed for the laptop and have a new wireless tool to try.. VasmCC has been updated almost fully functional now! We added kdelibs, k3b and kdesu as our substitute programs just were not making the grade. There are a few problems that remain and they are upstream and there seems to be no patches. The Terminal crashing bug is vte and new Xorg related depending on your video chipset so we implemented a nice version of xterm as a work around and will prolly go aterm in final. The sporadic behavior of the quit button in xfce4 is a bug reported upstream that hasn't resolved itself yet. We have tried to cover everything else so please give this a good workout we want to be final soon!Thanks.Vec

Selected UK keyboard layout for X, but ended up with US, had to edit xorg.conf after boot.

There are still two icons missing from the menus - About Xfce, and GTKFind.

Problem with the VASM mount applet still shows here. I select /dev/hda1, first panels detects it as HPFS/NTFS, but the third panel specifies that it is XFS. If others are not seeing this, I wonder if they are using XFS? I have both / and home as XFS, plus Zenwalk (x2) on XFS. Output of fdisk is as below:

Also, I'm glad to say that Gslapt seems to be working fine now. Tried an update, followed by 'mark all updates' and 'execute', worked a treat...

paul.

did you try k3b before the update?what repo's do you have enabled? doing update here only gives 1 package to upgrade.the vasm mount applet gets the third panel filesystem from the output of mount after it mounts the partition with auto, so im not sure if that can be fixed or why it seems to mount your ntfs partition as xfs. was it formatted as xfs before?I have all icons here. did you overwrite your /home dir?Xcalc is there. (we need menu item for it) does it have all needed functionality?

I need as many people with wireless to test VLwifi. its in the network menu.please try it as many ways as possible.let me know how it works and what you think could be changed to make it work better.It does not setup your hardware so you may need to "modprobe ndiswrapper" or whatever you use to bring up the hardware.After that it should get wpa and the others going.

... so we implemented a nice version of xterm as a work around and will prolly go aterm in final

Might I suggest mrxvt, which we used to have on VL5.8Gold. It is a very nice fast, transparent capable multi-tabbed terminal which is not a system hog (about 1/3 less RAM than Terminal). Just an idea....

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the vasm mount applet gets the third panel filesystem from the output of mount after it mounts the partition with auto, so im not sure if that can be fixed or why it seems to mount your ntfs partition as xfs. was it formatted as xfs before?

Hmm. Very strange. I tried creating a directory for /dev/hda1, then did

So it was certainly detected correctly by 'mount auto'. The partition was FAT32, converted to NTFS by the final stages of the IBM recovery install. Never been XFS. So I have no idea why the mount applet is failing to correctly identify it.

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I have all icons here. did you overwrite your /home dir?

Found the problem. I'm not exactly a fan of the Vista look. Selecting a different icon set is what causes the problem. I used Settings > User Interface Settings > Icon Theme > Gnome. I've tried several other icon themes, which also seem to be missing quite a few icons for the menus.

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Xcalc is there. (we need menu item for it) does it have all needed functionality?

That would do for my purposes. I'll create an xcalc.desktop to get it on the menu for the moment.

Looks good...

BTW, on the reinstall, UK keyboard for X was fine, so I don't know what caused the problem with the first install...

Fonts used for Xterm are much too large for my poor little 14.1" screen. Where are the defaults stored?

right click the terminal icon in the panel and goto properties.the command is "xterm -bg black -fg white -fn *-fixed-*-*-*-20-*"try "xterm -bg black -fg white -fn *-9x15-*-*-*-18-*"the options are endless also you can just CTRL+right click an xterm and adjust font there